Postoperative fever

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Dionigi, Renzo ^a   Dionigi, Gianlorenzo ^a   Rovera, Francesca ^a   Boni, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALCOHOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; METICILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; OPIATE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THYROXINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COST CONTROL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; FEVER; FUNGUS; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG LAVAGE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SEPSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROTOXICOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CATHETER; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 33748082301     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.s2-17     Document Type: Article

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